1961–62 Eintracht Frankfurt season

The 1961–62 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 62nd season in the club's football history. In Oberliga Süd the club played in the Oberliga Süd, then one of many top tiers of German football. It was the club's 17th season in the Oberliga Süd. Eintracht finished the league as runners-up. In the German Championship Qualifiers the Eagles finished as 2nd.

Eintracht Frankfurt

1961–62 season
Chairman	Rudolf Gramlich
Manager	Paul Oßwald
Oberliga Süd	2nd / Runners-up
DFB-Pokal / South German Cup	1st round / Quarter-finals (qualification for DFB-Pokal)
German football championship	2nd / Runners-up
Top goalscorer	League: Lothar Schämer (26) All: Erwin Stein (30)
Highest home attendance	71,000 15 April 1962 v 1. FC Nürnberg (league)
Lowest home attendance	9,000 7 January 1962 v SV Waldhof (league)
Average home league attendance	18,933

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendlies

22 July 1961	Bayern Hof	1–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hof, West Germany
	Stark  75'	Report	Stein  21', 59' Schämer  64' Solz  70', 76'	Stadium: Stadion Grüne Au Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Kandelbinder

23 July 1961	1. FC Haßfurt	3–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Haßfurt, West Germany
	Bayer  16' Kreh (64.)(80.)	Report	Horn  42', 86' Kress  49'	Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Scheuring

1 August 1961	Rot-Weiss Frankfurt	1–8	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
	Becker  58'	Report	Stein (5.)(80.)(87.)(89.) Kress  31' Kreuz (53.)(71.)(77.)	Stadium: Stadion am Brentanobad Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Berg

22 August 1961	Standard de Liège	0–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Liège, Belgium
		Report	Kreuz  20', 67'	Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Piavier

19 September 1961	SV Wiesbaden	1–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Wiesbaden, West Germany
	Erber  19'	Report	Landerer  21' (pen.) Dieter Kraft  34', 38' Stein  36', 66' Lindner  40'	Stadium: Stadion an der Berliner Straße Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Schreiner

4 October 1961	SL Benfica	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Lisbon, Portugal
	Cavém  2' Coluna  23'	Report	Lindner  37' Schämer  65' Stein  74'	Stadium: Estádio da Luz Attendance: 35,000

17 October 1961	Rangers	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Glasgow, Scotland
19:30 BST	Davis  52', 55'	Report	Kress  8' Schämer  17' Höfer  49'	Stadium: Hampden Park Attendance: 104,679 Referee: Davidson

19 October 1961	Sheffield United	3–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	England
19:30 BST	Pace  3' Russell  24' Landerer  29' (o.g.)	Report	Stein  77'	Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Leafe

15 May 1962	Panathinaikos	0–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Athens, Greece
		Report		Stadium: Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium Attendance: 15,000

19 May 1962	Malaya	2–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
	Abdul Ghani  22', 65'	Report	Schämer  19' (pen.) Solz  44' Kress  60' Stinka  71'	Stadium: Stadium Merdeka Attendance: 10,000

21 May 1962	Bangkok XI	1–6	Eintracht Frankfurt
		Report	Kress Weber Büttner Solz

23 May 1962	Hong Kong XI	1–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hong Kong
	Mok  23'	Report	Büttner  20', 43' Kress  38'  44' Stein

26 May 1962	Hong Kong XI	3–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hong Kong
		Report	Kress Weilbächer Solz Schämer Stinka	Attendance: 5,000

30 May 1962	San Francisco XI	2–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	San Francisco, United States
		Report	Stein Büttner	Attendance: 8,000

2 June 1962	Sheffield United	4–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Vancouver, Canada
	Allchurch Hodgson	Report	Büttner	Attendance: 18,000

6 June 1962	Winnipeg XI	1–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Winnipeg, Canada
		Report	Stein Büttner Schämer	Attendance: 6,500

9 June 1962	Sheffield United	4–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Toronto, Canada
	Kettleborough  2' Pace	Report		Attendance: 12,000

12 June 1962	DAFB (German-American soccer association)	1–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	New York City, United States
	Erbach  60'	Report	Stein  28', 50' Stinka  67' Büttner  84'	Stadium: Eintracht Oval Attendance: 2,500

20 June 1962	SG Büdingen	0–7	Eintracht Frankfurt	Büdingen, West Germany
		Report	Solz  13', 56', 84', 85' Stein  41', 89' Kress  49'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Gehwal

Oberliga Süd

League fixtures and results

6 August 1961 1	1860 Munich	1–6	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich, West Germany
	Brunnenmeier  83'	Report	Schämer  16', 70', 73', 78' Höfer  33' Lutz  37'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Handwerker

13 August 1961 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–4	Kickers Offenbach	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  1', 47' Kreuz  3' (pen.) Schämer  24', 42'	Report	Lotz  21' Gast  41', 58' Kraus  44'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Kreitlein

20 August 1961 3	SV Waldhof	1–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Mannheim, West Germany
	Diehl  52'	Report	Schämer  17', 38' Kreuz  48' (pen.)	Stadium: Stadion am Alsenweg Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Meißner

27 August 1961 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	SSV Reutlingen	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Horn  51' Stein  72'	Report	Scheurer  46' Dulz  83'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Kandelbinder

3 September 1961 5	BC Augsburg	2–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Augsburg, West Germany
	Späth  4' Haller  43' (pen.) Hochstätter I  72'	Report	Kress  13' Stinka  83'	Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Hubbuch

10 September 1961 6	FSV Frankfurt	0–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
		Report	Stein  31' Schämer  43' Kreuz  60' Lindner  75', 84'	Stadium: Stadion am Bornheimer Hang Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Tschenscher

16 September 1961 7	Eintracht Frankfurt	9–0	VfR Mannheim	Frankfurt, West Germany
16:30 CEST	Stinka  3' Lindner  24', 31' Kress  37' Kreuz  53' Höfer  68' Weilbächer  74' Schämer  85', 86'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Freimuth

24 September 1961 8	Karlsruher SC	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Karlsruhe, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Witlatschil  32'	Report	Schämer  29' Stein  70'	Stadium: Wildparkstadion Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dusch

1 October 1961 9	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–2	Bayern Munich	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  6' Lindner  15'	Report	Ohlhauser  23' Thimm  68'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Schneider

15 October 1961 10	VfB Stuttgart	0–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Stuttgart, West Germany
		Report	Kreuz  19' Stein  42' Stinka  84'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Jakobi

29 October 1961 11	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	SpVgg Fürth	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Schymik  46'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Klein

5 November 1961 12	Bayern Hof	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hof, West Germany
	Greim  88'	Report	Lindner  29' Schymik  31'	Stadium: Stadion Grüne Au Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Treiber

11 November 1961 13	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–1	Schwaben Augsburg	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Stein  8', 18' Kreuz  15', 24' Kress  25'	Report	Metzger  46'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Handwerker

19 November 1961 14	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	Schweinfurt 05	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Schämer  72'	Report	Kupfer  36'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hubbuch

26 November 1961 15	1. FC Nürnberg	0–3	Eintracht Frankfurt	Nuremberg, West Germany
		Report	Schämer  56', 66' Lindner  80'	Stadium: Städtisches Stadion Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Tschenscher

10 December 1961 16	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–2	1860 Munich	Frankfurt, West Germany
	Horn  39' Höfer  60' Lutz  69' Lindner  87'	Report	Brunnenmeier  30' Küppers  43'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Neumeier

17 December 1961 17	Kickers Offenbach	1–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Offenbach, West Germany
14:15 CEST	Kraus  35'	Report		Stadium: Stadion am Bieberer Berg Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Kreitlein

7 January 1962 18	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–0	SV Waldhof	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:15 CEST	Schämer  31' Stinka  34' Stein  57'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Ommerborn

14 January 1962 19	SSV Reutlingen	4–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Reutlingen, West Germany
	Wodarzik  21' Fritschi  46' Scheurer  59', 77'	Report	Stein  6', 88'	Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Fischer

21 January 1962 20	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	BC Augsburg	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:15 CEST	Stinka  57'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Seiler

27 January 1962 21	Eintracht Frankfurt	4–0	FSV Frankfurt	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Kreuz  37' Schämer  50', 70' Stinka  55'	Report		Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Jakobi

4 February 1962 22	VfR Mannheim	1–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Mannheim, West Germany
	Sauter  14'	Report	Horn  19'	Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Reil

10 February 1962 23	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–1	Karlsruher SC	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:30 CEST	Schämer  13', 68' Lindner  70'	Report	Marx  63'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Eckel

18 February 1962 24	Bayern Munich	2–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Munich, West Germany
	Giesemann  71' Röckenwagner  88'	Report		Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Tschenscher

25 February 1962 25	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–2	VfB Stuttgart	Frankfurt, West Germany
14:30 CEST	Schämer  14' (pen.)	Report	Höller  65' Neupert  89'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Mors

11 March 1962 26	SpVgg Fürth	1–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Fürth, West Germany
	Eigenbrodt  34' (o.g.)	Report		Attendance: 9,000 Referee: Treiber

24 March 1962 27	Eintracht Frankfurt	5–2	Bayern Hof	Frankfurt, West Germany
16:30 CEST	Schämer  43', 43', 59' Stein  38' Kress  63'	Report	Greim  35' Winterstein  67'	Stadium: Riederwaldstadion Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Fritz

1 April 1962 28	Schwaben Augsburg	1–4	Eintracht Frankfurt	Augsburg, West Germany
	Georg Lechner  53'	Report	Stein  9' Solz  15' Schämer  64', 70'	Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Kreitlein

8 April 1962 29	Schweinfurt 05	3–0	Eintracht Frankfurt	Schweinfurt, West Germany
	Schweighöfer  25', 65' Kupfer  69'	Report		Stadium: Willy-Sachs-Stadion Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Neumeier

15 April 1962 30	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–1	1. FC Nürnberg	Frankfurt, West Germany
15:00 CEST	Stein  16', 26'	Report	Flachenecker  25'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 71,000 Referee: Tschenscher

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Nürnberg	30	20	3	7	70	30	+40	43	Qualification to German championship
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	30	19	5	6	81	37	+44	43
3	Bayern Munich	30	17	6	7	67	55	+12	40
4	Kickers Offenbach	30	16	5	9	65	50	+15	37
5	VfB Stuttgart	30	13	8	9	66	53	+13	34
6	Bayern Hof	30	12	8	10	55	56	−1	32
7	1860 Munich	30	11	8	11	64	57	+7	30
8	SSV Reutlingen	30	12	5	13	57	51	+6	29
9	Karlsruher SC	30	8	12	10	47	44	+3	28
10	VfR Mannheim	30	9	10	11	47	59	−12	28
11	BC Augsburg	30	9	8	13	55	63	−8	26
12	SpVgg Fürth	30	6	12	12	31	39	−8	24
13	Schwaben Augsburg	30	10	3	17	43	78	−35	23
14	Schweinfurt 05	30	9	4	17	39	63	−24	22
15	FSV Frankfurt	30	7	7	16	35	65	−30	21	Relegation to 2. Oberliga Süd
16	SV Waldhof	30	6	8	16	39	61	−22	20

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points;

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	19	5	6	81	37	+44	43	11	3	1	48	18	+30	8	2	5	33	19	+14

Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	W
Position	3	3	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 1 January 2021. Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

German football championship

League fixtures and results

21 April 1962 1	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–3	1. FC Köln	Frankfurt, West Germany
17:30 CEST	Kress  40'	Report	Habig  34' Thielen  46', 49'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Ott

28 April 1962 2	Eintracht Frankfurt	8–1	FK Pirmasens	Stuttgart, West Germany
	Stein  19', 26', 49', 59', 77' Lindner  22', 88' Kress  63'	Report	Matischak  66'	Stadium: Neckarstadion Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Treichel

5 May 1962 3	Hamburger SV	1–2	Eintracht Frankfurt	Hamburg, West Germany
	Dörfel  21'	Report	Weilbächer  15' Stein  44'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 61,000 Referee: Schörnich

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Köln	3	3	0	0	14	1	+13	6	Qualified to final
2	Eintracht Frankfurt	3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	4
3	Hamburger SV	3	1	0	2	7	6	+1	2
4	FK Pirmasens	3	0	0	3	4	24	−20	0

Source: RSSSF.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points;

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
3	2	0	1	11	5	+6	4	1	0	1	9	4	+5	1	0	0	2	1	+1

Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3
Ground	H	H	A
Result	L	W	W
Position	4	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 1 January 2021. Source:
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

DFB-Pokal

28 July 1961 1st Round	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–3 (a.e.t.)	1. FC Köln	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Stein  10' Horn  44'	Report	Schäfer  69', 70' Müller  102'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Deuschel

SFV-Pokal

23 December 1961 1st Round	VfR 07 Limburg	3–5 (a.e.t.)	Eintracht Frankfurt	Limburg, West Germany
	Becker  8', 13', 39'	Report	Stinka  38', 103' Schämer  43' (pen.) Stein  53', 110'	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Wenzel

18 March 1962 2nd Round	SV Wiesbaden	0–5	Eintracht Frankfurt	West Germany
		Report	Stein  1', 10', 42', 51' Stierstorfer  11' (o.g.)	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Handwerker

9 May 1962 3rd Round	Eintracht Frankfurt	3–2	SpVgg Neu-Isenburg	Frankfurt, West Germany
20:00 CEST	Stein  34' (pen.) Lindner  58' Landerer  74' (pen.)	Report	Kranz  40' E Schneider  44'	Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Sparing

13 May 1962 Quarter-finals	Eintracht Frankfurt	2–0	SV Waldhof	Frankfurt, West Germany
	Kress  18' Schämer  73' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Waldstadion Attendance: 2,500
Note: The tournament didn't continue after the quarter-finals since it already counted as qualification for the DFB-Pokal

Squad

Squad and statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Oberliga		DFB-Pokal		German Championship round
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		Egon Loy	36	0	30	0	3	0	3	0
	GK		Wolfgang Zscherlich	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
	DF		Hermann Höfer	37	3	29	3	5	0	3	0
	DF		Eberhard Schymik	26	2	20	2	3	0	3	0
	MF		Peter Büttner	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
	MF		Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt	33	0	26	0	4	0	3	0
	MF		Ludwig Landerer	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	0
	MF		Friedel Lutz	22	2	20	2	2	0	0	0
	MF		Dieter Stinka	34	8	27	6	4	2	3	0
	MF		Hans Weilbächer	31	2	23	1	5	0	3	1
	FW		Alfred Horn	23	5	18	3	3	2	2	0
	FW		Richard Kress	37	7	30	4	4	1	3	2
	FW		Ernst Kreuz	24	8	22	8	2	0	0	0
	FW		Dieter Lindner	24	12	18	9	3	1	3	2
	FW		Erich Meier	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
	FW		Lothar Schämer	35	28	30	26	3	2	2	0
	FW		Wolfgang Solz	10	1	7	1	2	0	1	0
	FW		Erwin Stein	37	30	29	16	5	8	3	6

Transfers

In: No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GER Peter Büttner (from Eintracht Frankfurt Academy) — FW  GER Alfred Horn (from Bayern Hof) — MF  GER Ludwig Landerer (from TSG Ulm 1846) — GK  GER Wolfgang Zscherlich (from Eintracht Frankfurt academy)

Out: No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  GER Hans-Günter Kirchhof (to FSV Frankfurt) — FW  GER Alfred Pfaff (retired)

Sources

• German archive site (in German)
• Matheja, Ulrich (2011). Unsere Eintracht - Eintracht Frankfurt - Die Chronik. Die Werkstatt. ISBN 978-3-89533-750-5.

See also

• 1962 German football championship

External links

• Official English Eintracht website Archived 2 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine